Clavatula kraepelini

Clavatula kraepelini
Drawing of a shell of Clavatula kraepelini
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Clavatula
Species:
C. kraepelini
Binomial name
Clavatula kraepelini
(Strebel, 1914)
Synonyms[1]

Pusionella kraepelini Strebel, 1914

Clavatula kraepelini is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1][2]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 25 mm and 37 mm.

The shiny shell has a maroon color. Sometimes its borders are whitish, as well as the first whorls are shiny and colorless. The shell contains probably 10 - 11 whorls (as no specimen is complete). These are slightly arched and weakly bulging at the seam. The swollen body whorl is laterally somewhat flattened and is curved to the left from its base. The outermost layer of the shell is covered with a shiny, colorless callus.[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean between Senegal and Angola.

References

  1. ^ a b Clavatula kraepelini (Strebel, 1914). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. ^ P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
  3. ^ Michaelsen, W. , Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Meeresfauna Westafrikas; Hamburg,Friedericksen,1914-1932
  • Bernard, P.A. (Ed.) (1984). Coquillages du Gabon [Shells of Gabon]. Pierre A. Bernard: Libreville, Gabon. 140, 75 plates pp.

Bernard figured under the erroneous name "Clavatula kraepelini" three specimens of this species, extending the habitat range, given by Strebel, northwards to Gabon.[1]

  1. ^ Rolan, Ryall & Horro, Notes on West African Perrona (Gastropoda: Clavatulidae), with the description of a new species ; Iberus : revista de la Sociedad Española de Malacología vol 26 (1), 2008"